Wetherby is opening a New York outpost in September in a Beaux Arts mansion off Central Park, and local Anglophiles applied for their toddlers’ admission there when it was widely assumed that some royalty would be rubbing off on them from across the pond.

But it was announced last week that the 3-year-old prince will instead attend Thomas’s.

And at a gala at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Kate Middleton was overheard gaily telling some of that institution’s parents, “I’ll see you at the school gates.”